When Culture Shock Dance founder Angie Bunch took her daughter Dominica to see “The Nutcracker” eight years ago, she expected the 5-year-old to get as swept up in the magic of the classic ballet as she did as a child.

“But she got up and walked out. She just wasn’t having it,” Bunch said. “I’m not sure if it was the ballet or the music, but she wasn’t engaged.”

Bunch, 54, said she loves the idea of introducing the “Nutcracker” to student dancers at her 20-year-old hip hop dance company. Of the 135 performers in this weekend’s show, fewer than 10 had ever seen the classic ballet, she said.

“I’m appalled and amazed that it’s not a tradition for them like it was for me,” Bunch said, adding that she began storyboarding her version of the “Nutcracker” last January with the goal of bringing the story into the 21st century.

Bunch’s “Nutcracker” will start out with a snippet of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s famous overture, then a beatboxer will take the stage to DJ a Christmas house party, where Clara will meet Herr Drosselmeyer and his magical toys. At the party, different generations of dancers will perform dubstep, hip hop, breaking, locking and street dancing to music by James Brown, One Direction, Fergie, Ylvis and Daft Punk, among others.

The Nutcracker and Rat Queen will fight, but this time it will be in a dance battle. San Diego’s Body Poets troupe will play the dancing snowflakes, and the Kingdom of Sweets scene will be a colorful, androgynous world filled with international dance styles.

Bunch -- who got her start in urban dance in the early 1990s teaching cardio hip hop classes for Nike around the country -- is underwriting the show with a grant and more than $7,000 raised through a Kickstarter campaign. She’s using the money to rent sets from a local dance troupe that just finished its “Nutcracker” production. She says this will be the most theatrical show she has staged in more than 30 years.

“I hope it will become an annual thing,” she said. “I want it to be something that makes some good noise.”